Transportation

Curb Cut Battle Continues in Dyker Heights

In Dyker Heights, a neighborhood better known for its uber-festive Christmas decorations, tensions continue to rise about an issue that affects many of the city’s residential enclaves. The trouble started when a homeowner on a block of attached 1905 rowhouses, Gus Englezos, got permission from the Department of Buildings last July and again this January [...]

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Thinking Outside of the (Fare Hike) Box

Despite the delays, increasing fares, weekend service changes, and rain-related shutdowns, the New York’s subway and surface transit systems are assets to the city’s overall quality-of-life in that they keep tons of airborne pollution out of the skies. Imagine if all 8 million of us hopped into our own cars each morning instead of packing [...]

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Where’s the Love for MTA Buses?

Even though most of New York City’s subway lines have seen dramatic increases in ridership in the past years, the city’s bus ridership numbers have leveled off and in some cases decreased. Recent figures show that during weekdays in March, ridership numbers on local and express bus routes declined by 14,000 riders compared to the [...]

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9th Avenue Express

Now that the innovative 9th Avenue cycle track (bike lane physically separated from traffic) has had some time to be broken in, let’s take a trip down it’s length and see some of its features, signage, and generally how it’s been holding up. The lane begins at West 23rd Street and terminates at West 16th [...]

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MTA Hopes to Close the Gap

The MTA has announced plans to begin attaching metal extension plates at the foot of each door on all of the newer M-7 passenger train cars in an attempt to minimize the gap sometimes found between the door and the station platform edge. The MTA has been under pressure to do something about the sometimes [...]

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